Module 2 Lesson 6 - Inquire & Watch

 

Inquire: African Americans in the Progressivism Era

Failures of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1920s

As African Americans still dealt with segregation, racial violence and killings, and denial of full economic and political rights promised by the end of the Civil War, leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois developed philosophies and institutions to combat the inequality and marginalization. Still, the Civil Rights Movement failed to achieve its goals and remained split between opposing ideologies. This divide would remain through the 20th century and into the present day.

Big Question

To what degree did the Du Bois and Washington approaches divide the Civil Rights Movement and continue to have an impact today?

 

Watch: Du Bois and the NAACP

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